Music: Cyrano von Grofe

In the early 1920s, before jitterbugs were heard of, U. S. citizens
stretched their legs to a suave, complex and relatively deliberate type
of jazz. For this jazz Tin Pan Alley tunesmiths tapped out the melodies,
lavishly equipped dance bands swelled the refrain. But the highly
technical business of writing out the music, making accompaniments
and orchestrations was done by men called "arrangers." Though the
Irving Berlins and the Vincent Lopezes got the kudos and the bacon, it
was their hard-working arrangers who actually butchered the pig.